Quotes by : Jack Gilbert

It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked....

We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power....

Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That....

Michiko Nogami (1946—1982)” Is she more apparent because she is notanymore forever? Is her whiteness....

I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me nowis a beginning or an end.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness....

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have....

Suddenly this defeat.This rain.The blues gone grayAnd the browns gone grayAnd yellowA terrible amber.In....